<p>Most people who take up a musical instrument have dropped it by the time they leave school. With the onset of maturity they start to regret giving it up. But still they do nothing about it. At the age of 39 and three quarters, Jasper Rees did do something about it. He fished his French horn out of the attic, where it had lain silent for 22 years, and took it to the instrument's annual jamboree: the British Horn Society festival. Along with 69 other horn players, he stood onstage and played Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. There and then, despite severely limited ability, he set himself a near impossible target: to stand up in front of a paying audience in twelve months' time and play a Mozart concerto. Alone. 'I Found My Horn' is the story of a midlife crisis spent not on a Harley Davidson but on 18 feet of wrapped brass tubing. It is also the story of man's first musical instrument, and its journey from the walls of Jericho to Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, from the hunting fields of aristocratic France to the heart of Hollywood. Along the way, Jasper Rees seeks expert advice as he prepares to stand up in front of a packed London auditorium and perform a Mozart concerto on this notoriously treacherous instrument. Everyone says the same thing. Don't do it.</p>

I Found My Horn (A Devil to Play): One Man's Struggle with the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument

Arts & Photography

Jasper Rees

Music

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Blizzard

BBC Books

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i-found-my-horn

Phoenix

A surprise appointment at arsenal fc when he arrived in 1996 and now the most established manager in english football, wenger managed to convert a sceptical, entrenched footballing culture to his modern way of thinking. In this newly updated biography, jesper rees uncovers the true story behind this deeply private man, having been granted unprecedented access to wenger's friends and family, players and rivals. Rees shows how wenger's revolutionary ideas on psychology, diet and fitness were shaped by his own experience - from childhood in alsace, to his days as a player and coach in france and japan. Wenger has survived smears and scandal, taken his club to a new stadium and transformed arsenal into a european powerhouse, all the while sticking to his principles of nurturing youth and raising the "beautiful game" to previously unimagined heights.

Wenger: A Legend

Biographies & Memoirs

Short Books Ltd

Jasper Rees has always wanted to be Welsh. But despite Welsh grandparents (and a Welsh surname) he is an Englishman: by birth, upbringing and temperament. In this singular, hilarious love letter to a glorious country so often misunderstood, Rees sets out to achieve his goal of becoming a Welshman by learning to sing, play, work, worship, think - and above all, speak - like one. On the way he meets monks, tenors and politicians, and tries his hand at rugby and lambing - all the while weaving together his personal story with Wales's rich history. Culminating in a nail-biting test of Rees's Welsh-speaking skill at the National Eisteddfod, this exuberant journey of self-discovery celebrates the importance of national identity, and the joy of belonging.

Bred of Heaven

Memoirs

Profile Books

Bred of Heaven: One man's quest to reclaim his Welsh roots

Profile Books, Ltd.

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